Florian, is it really 3 HDDs you want to move, not 4? It says "Cur PV 4" in the pvdata output below. Maybe that still makes sense, because you have 2 PVs in 2 partitions on the very same physical disk. That pvdata reports an empty VG name is just a minor flaw but doesn't show an error. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:01:02PM +0200, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > Uh, oh, replying to myself: > > On 03-Sep-2002 Florian Hinzmann wrote: > > > But the moved VG isn't detected properly. This is what I get: > > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "vg01" from physical volume(s) > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vgpum01" > > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups > > The disks are back in their original machine currently. > > > pvdata gives me: > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/hdb1 > VG Name vg01 > PV Size 76.34 GB [160086526 secs] / NOT usable 8.19 MB [LVM: 166 KB] > PV# 4 > PV Status available > Allocatable yes (but full) > Cur LV 5 > PE Size (KByte) 8192 > Total PE 9769 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 9769 > PV UUID jRyOAJ-1KHk-564T-jrQS-BHWC-OKhu-JiL9d4 > > --- Volume group --- > VG Name > VG Access read/write > VG Status NOT available/resizable > VG # 0 > MAX LV 256 > Cur LV 9 > Open LV 0 > MAX LV Size 511.98 GB > Max PV 256 > Cur PV 4 > Act PV 4 > VG Size 212.07 GB > PE Size 8 MB > Total PE 27145 > Alloc PE / Size 27145 / 212.07 GB > Free PE / Size 0 / 0 > VG UUID BVZr37-mltv-69XE-pnBS-5ryg-NcKL-k6Fcfy > > --- List of logical volumes --- > > pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/vg01/home" at offset 0 > pvdata -- logical volume "/dev/vg01/usr" at offset 1 > [...] > > > "VG Name" in "--- Volume group ---" is empty. Is this normal? In case > this or some other errors within the data structures within one or > more partitions is the cause of my problems: > My setup is currently working obviosly. Is there a way to write this > working configuration into every LVM partition's metadata overwriting > some possible errors there? > > > Regards > Florian > > > -- > Florian Hinzmann private: f.hinzmann@hamburg.de > Debian: fh@debian.org > PGP Key / ID: 1024D/B4071A65 > Fingerprint : F9AB 00C1 3E3A 8125 DD3F DF1C DF79 A374 B407 1A65 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
